Save the Date The 29th Annual symposium, April 5, 2025.
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Past Symposia
Each Year, the SCSB hosts a symposium to highlight current research. The invited speakers are world renowned leaders in their fields of research.
The 29th Structural Biology Annual Symposium
Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025
Location: Health Education Center (HEC) Room 1.200
Chair: Prof. Guy Nir
co-Chair: Prof. Yunfeng Chen
Invited Speakers
Kerry Bloom, Ph.D.
Professor
Biology Department
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
E-mail: kerry_bloom@unc.edu
Title: "Building springs with DNA"
Yifan cheng, Ph.D.
Professor, HHMI Investigator
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
E-mail: yifan.cheng@ucsf.eduv
Title: "Cryo-EM studies of integrin αvβ8 mediated L-TGF-β activation"
Yamini Dalal, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD
E-mail: dalaly@mail.nih.gov
Title: "Interrogating chromatin dynamics using video speed atomic force microscopy"
Eduardo Perozo, Ph.D.
Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Institute for Biophysical Dynamics
Pritzker Fellow
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
E-mail: eperozo@uchicago.edu
Title: "Prestin Conformational Dynamics and the Molecular Basis of the Cochlear Amplifier"
Jane Skok, Ph.D.
Sandra and Edward H. Meyer Professor of Radiation Oncology
Department of Pathology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY
E-mail: Jane.Skok@nyulangone.org
Title:
Li-av Segev-Zarko, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX
E-mail: lisegevz@utmb.edu
Title: "Elucidating apicomplexan invasion: from macromolecular structures to biological function"